Just for fun

Here are the precincts (915 and 916) in Boulder County that encompass Allenspark and what surrounds Allenspark.  The first number is the precinct number, the second number is the number of registered voters in that precinct who voted in the 2021 election, the third number is the total number of registered voters in that precinct, and the fourth number is the percentage of registered voters in that precinct who voted in the 2021 election. Obviously, the voting members of these precincts who are part of the Estes Park School District is a fraction of the total potential pool.  So let's first calculate the total number of registered voters in districts 915 and 916.  That number, Tim (just a general, generic Tim, I'm not directing this towards any specific reporter named Tim), is 440 + 497.  Pull out your calculator, Tim, and add together those two numbers.  440 + 497 = 937.  (The easy way to do this is to just consider 497 as 500, and then add 440 to 500 (940) and subtract 3.)

Are you with me so far, Tim?  937 is the maximum number of registered voters living in these two precincts in Boulder County.  The number of registered voters out of this 937 who can vote in the Estes Park School District Board of Directors is a fraction of 937.  Let's be really generous and say this fraction is 1/2 of those registered voters living in Precincts 915 and 916.  That would be 937 / 2, or 438.  And let's be really generous again, and say that (even though the numbers don't bear this out), half of those registered voters actually voted.  That would be 438 / 2, or 219.  So at most, 219 people POTENTIALLY voted in the election for Estes Park School Board in 2021 from precincts 915 and 916.  Thus far (and, according to the Trail-Gazette, Boulder County is STILL COUNTING), there have been at least 124 ballots from Allenspark counted as relates to Estes Park School Board.  This is the number of votes assigned to Peggy Mauerman, who lives in Allenspark.  For every one vote Peggy Mauerman has received thus far from Boulder County/Allenspark, Danielle Wolf has gotten .77 votes, and John Davis .47 votes (just divide 96 by 124, and 58 by 124, to get these numbers).  So let's be really generous one more time and say there are still 95 ballots (219 minus 124) from Allenspark precincts 915 and 916 out there left to count (there aren't, but this is Tim's dream fantasy, we are all just playing along to appease him).  If things break the same way as the ballots already counted, Danielle Wolf would gain 95 x .77 or 73 votes,  John Davis would gain 95 x .47 = 45 votes.  So Danielle Wolf would add 28 more votes to her 38 vote lead over John Davis in Boulder County, or 66 votes.  That would put her in the lead (combining Boulder County and Larimer County) over John Davis by 5 votes.  She would on the board!!!  And the Trail-Gazette could put her bio and picture back up on the webpage, maybe even put it on their masthead.  And, then, as a board member duly elected (once 95 more ballots are found for Boulder County to count, and remember, they are STILL COUNTING) she could then pass a top secret order which had to be followed that only people who had been on the board previously, or lived in Allenspark, could serve on the board with her.  And it would have to be followed.  So none of the people actually voted for by the electorate would be on the board.  That would work especially well if the Trail-Gazette put something on their front page that said "Danielle Wolf Still Must Be Obeyed".  That would make it true and official and completely legitimate.

All Boulder County needs to do for this dream scenario to play out is find 95 more ballots from Allenspark precincts 915 and 916 to guarantee this.  Right now, they have found 0 ballots towards this 95, but if they just start looking really, really hard, and if we as a collective readership of the Trail-Gazette, swallowing all the nonsense they feed us, yell really, really loud for Boulder County to start looking really, really hard, maybe they will find a box of 95 uncounted ballots.  Naturally, given that up to this point, only 124 ballots (at a minimum) out of 219 (at a ridiculously inflated potential maximum) have been cast in the legitimate election, it would look a tad suspicious to find 95 uncounted ballots, but this is America.  I'm sure the Trail-Gazette would find a perfectly legitimate, justifiable reason for these 95 ballots turning up and it wouldn't even require asking the Boulder County election officials how it happened.  Why bother asking the people who count the ballots if more ballots are around to count? You can just assert that Boulder County is still counting ballots, and your assertion if you are a newspaper with a print circulation of 248 MAKES IT SO.




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